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5 Reasons Why VOIP Is The Future Of Nonprofit Communication

TechImpact

Dollar for dollar, VOIP phone services are the cheapest options available for nonprofit organizations seeking a versatile communication platform. By calling long distance over the internet you are avoiding the use of the traditional phone infrastructure that make calling long-distance so costly. Unlimited international calling.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And I will start this post off by being clear – this is as much of an internal, personal conflict for me, and a way in which I see my own behavior and my values diverge at times. Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? Green Hosting.

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What Will Happen When PCs and Mobile Phones Converge?

Tech Soup

The robust smartphones of the near future will likely use a combination of mobile apps and cloud apps and because we'll dock them so much with our laptops, we'll begin using those types of applications much more on our computers as well. Developing countries are moving toward LTE or WiMAX to generate data networks.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

Tech Soup

Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. But I digress. How Much Does Reuse Save? Image: lungstruck.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

Tech Soup

Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. How Much Does Reuse Save?

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Refurbished Computers for Nonprofit Serving Homeless

Tech Soup

Keli gets to talk to many people on the phone who use TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) to get low-cost refurbished computers. Aside from some of them being used by our staff for internal organization functionality, some of them are used by our program partners. She has been there just under five years.